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Brodies LLP

Brodies LLP
  1. 15 Atholl Crescent,
  2. Edinburgh,
  3. City of Edinburgh
  4. UK
  5. EH3 8HA
  6. Tel (0131) 228 3777
  7. Fax (0131) 228 3878
  8. DX ED10 Edinburgh-1
  9. Email : mailbox@brodies.com
  10. Website : www.brodies.com
  • Chairman: Joyce Cullen
  • Managing Partner: Bill Drummond
  • Number of partners: 73
  • Associates : 76
  • Other UK fee-earners: 162

THE FIRM Brodies LLP offers clients the largest legal resource in Scotland. The firm has won many industry awards and plaudits for its client services, innovation, use of technology, commercial awareness and business acumen. Brodies provides business-focused advice to virtually every sector of the Scottish economy. Its client base includes companies and individuals from Scotland, the UK and across the globe, as well as the Scottish Government and a broad range of public sector organisations. With a talent bank of lawyers that includes some of the UK’s foremost legal experts, Brodies can provide specialist expertise ranging from commercial contracts to government regulation. Such expertise is not limited solely to Scottish jurisdictional work. The capability to undertake complex cross-border transactions is strengthened by active membership of European and global legal networks and its international strategic legal partnership with the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI). Brodies is the only Scottish law firm with an office in Brussels, providing EU regulation, competition and public law advice. Brodies continues to expand. In addition to opening its Brussels office and expansion in Aberdeen, the firm recruited nine new partners in 2011/12, growing its teams in corporate/M&A, IP/IT litigation, shipping & transport litigation, private client, agriculture & estates, pensions and oil & gas. In 2011, Brodies was named the UK National/Regional Law Firm of the Year by The Lawyer and ranked top in Scotland for the quality of its legal advice in the Legal Week Client Satisfaction Report.

PRINCIPAL AREAS OF WORK
Corporate & Commercial: The team advises corporates, public bodies and business owners, and has exceptional credentials across a broad range of specialisms–private equity; general M&A; cross-border transactions; regulation and government work; public/private partnerships and projects; funds; IP; IT and outsourcing. Its lawyers have strong experience in sectors including public authority; transport; technology; life sciences; higher and further education; oil and gas; renewable energy; food and drink and commercial property. There is also a strong corporate tax offering and its service has been further enhanced with the appointment of a new Director of Employee Benefits.
Banking, Restructuring & Insolvency: The team can be distinguished by its strong cross-Scotland coverage, with full capability across all offices. It has significant in-house experience with large financial institutions, and deals with complex transactions, new product development, legal risk management and regulatory compliance. It is very active on renewables and other energy financing; funds financing; re-banking; restructuring; asset finance; portfolio sales and purchases and social housing and care home transactions. There is also significant expertise in retail banking, securitisation and all forms of insolvency and corporate restructuring.
Property: Brodies has the largest, most diversely skilled, and highest rated department in Scotland, with specialists who operate in every sector of the market. Expertise includes investment and finance; commercial; residential and mixed-use development; out-of-town and high street retail; leisure; hotels; licensing; agriculture and estates and land diversification; urban regeneration and construction; outsourcing projects and property litigation. Brodies’ retail and leisure occupier strength and scale is such that the firm has represented the tenant occupier in an estimated one in three of all retail and leisure deals that have taken place in Scotland in major schemes and new developments over the past year.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution: The firm has one of the largest teams and strongest capabilities in Scotland. The firm now has 10 solicitor advocates, all of whom appear regularly in the Court of Session and Sheriff Courts. Specialisms include commercial and contractual disputes; health and safety; compliance; insurance; professional negligence; personal injury; risk management; intellectual property and IT disputes and property litigation. Brodies has an outstanding public law team, enhanced by the expertise of a QC specialising in competition law, who has wide experience of UK and European courts.
Employment: As one of the largest teams in Scotland, Brodies’ employment department is widely regarded as a market leader, with a reputation for responsive, targeted advice delivered with superb client focus.With an integrated specialist employee benefits and pensions function, the department assists HR and in-house legal teams across the UK, offering specialist advice in employment tribunal litigation; mediation and alternative dispute resolution; employee relations; remuneration and benefits; contract and policy development and executive appointment and termination, as well as guidance on pension issues and employee reward.
Private Client: Enhanced by the addition of a new partner in Aberdeen, the firm’s private client team is highly respected, not only for its core work in estate planning; wills; trusts; tax; divorce; separation and custody; asset protection; charities and executries, in multi-jurisdictional areas, but also for ground-breaking innovations such as developing (Scottish) family limited partnerships and a variety of trust solutions.


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Contacts

Agriculture & Estates:
Odell Milne
Banking & Financial Services:
Bruce Stephen
Casualty:
Cameron McNaught, Peter Demick
Commercial Litigation:
Joyce Cullen, Robin Macpherson
Competition & EU Law:
Mark Clough
Construction & Engineering:
Manus Quigg
Corporate:
Julian Voge, Alistair Campbell, David Allan, Will McIntosh
Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency:
Colin McIntosh, Rachel Grant
Debt & Asset Recovery:
David Whyte
Dispute Resolution & Litigation:
David Armstrong, Joyce Cullen, Stephen Goldie
Education:
Brenda Scott, Will McIntosh
Employment & Pensions:
Joan Cradden, Martha Quinn
Energy:
Clare Munro, Neil Collar, Keith Patterson
Family Law:
Scott Cochrane
Health:
Keith Patterson
Insurance:
Elena Fry, Cameron McNaught
Oil & Gas:
Clare Munro, Greg May
Personal Injury:
David Armstrong, Jonathan Cornwell
Planning & Environment:
Neil Collar, Charles Smith, Kenneth Ross
Private Client:
Alan Barr, Susanne Beveridge
Professional Negligence:
Alan Calvert
Projects:
Keith Patterson, Roger Cotton
Property:
Nick Scott, Denis Garrity, Johane Murray
Property Litigation:
Stephen Goldie
Public Law & Regulation:
Christine O’Neill
Public Sector Services Group:
Christine O’Neill, Jackie McGuire
Shipping:
Duncan MacLean
Tax:
Alan Barr, Isobel d’Inverno
Technology, Information & Outsourcing:
Grant Campbell
Transport:
Odell Milne, Karen Hamilton

Branches

  1. 2 Blythswood Square,
  2. Glasgow,
  3. Glasgow City
  4. UK
  5. G2 4AD
  6. Tel (0141) 248 4672
  7. Fax (0141) 221 9270
  8. DX GW 11
  9. Email : mailbox@brodies.com
  1. 23 Carden Place,
  2. Aberdeen,
  3. Aberdeen City
  4. UK
  5. AB10 1UQ
  6. Tel (01224) 392 242
  7. Fax (01224) 392 244
 
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